Daily photo from Greenland
Our first glacier. The photo is from June 9, but I forgot to post it. ;-) Anyway, regardless of the day, and despite some serious interest - not just flirting - from mosquitoes, the photo is important to me because we found our first glacier. Up close, that is. It wasn’t the first we had seen.
I remember being warm in the midnight sun as we sat there, just the two of us. I also remember it being really quite chilly in the tent as we camped in the shadow of an inlet, biting into the mountains on our side of the fjord. We were protected from any calvings, which was before we tried the opposite the following year - dumbest thing I ever did, or encouraged us to do. But, anyway, sitting there, completely alone, waiting in vain for the glacier to do its thing, was a special moment.
I wanted to record it, and had bought a tiny tripod for the purpose, telling Jane I had figured out the timer function. I also suggested unzipping the bug jacket hood, only to get the are you serious? look suggesting it wasn’t going to happen.
It didn’t. ;-)
Anyway, anyway…
Photo taken, lots of crackly black lichen on the rocks, icebergs clinking together, albeit less gracefully than that sounds, it was a perfect evening, around midnight, in Greenland.
Perfect.
And a movie!
Lise treated us to a movie and we finally saw one in the theatre, on impulse, earlier this afternoon. Disclosure Day was, for me at least, a rather emotional ride, if a little clichéd. Actually, it’s loaded with clichés, and on reflection it feels a few decades too late, and a bit out of touch. Is that because Spielberg is nearly 80 I wonder? Anyway, nothing new, really nothing special, but enjoyable and worth a watch, and, as mentioned, it triggers all the right emotional responses in all the right moments.